Official Hurt Again In Fight At Gateway

KISSIMMEE — Violence at Gateway High School injured the same school official Tuesday who was harmed four months ago by another student.

Assistant Principal Gregg Robinson was punched and kicked and later hit by a fleeing student's car after Robinson tried to break up a fight, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office reported.

''I'm doing fine,'' Robinson, who declined medical attention after the fight, said Thursday.

The fight broke out as classes were ending Tuesday. Up to 100 students were crowded around two fighters near the school's flagpole when Robinson and other school employees were summoned.

Caught in the crowd, Robinson was first knocked to the ground and then punched and kicked by unidentified students as he tried to break up the fight.

One of the fighters broke away with the help of friends and fled the campus in a purple Chevrolet.

The other fighter then tried to flee the campus in his car. Robinson told that student, Pedro Jose Sanchez, 17, to get out of the car, but Sanchez put the car in reverse and hit Robinson's leg as he backed away at high speed, deputies said.

In January, Robinson was kicked in the groin by a female student. Hitting a school official, besides being against the law, is cause for expulsion, but Robinson declined to comment on Sanchez's fate.

Sanchez was arrested at home in Buenaventura Lakes on a felony charge of battering a school official. He was released to his parents' custody.